Quotes About Valor

Robert A. Heinlein

Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?

Always take an honor guard with you. If you have to go, go down fighting. The size of your guard of honor determines your status in hell.

I knew the deeper meaning of "better death than dishonor"—I knew now why Roman matrons said, "With your shield or on it.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

For courage, there must be something at stake.

You know nothing of courage. said Baba Ayub. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. You have your life to lose, said the div. You already took that from me.

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage.

Lo único que necesitas es tener confianza en ti mismo. No hay ser viviente que no sienta miedo cuando se enfrenta al peligro. El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado, y esa clase de valor la tienes de sobra.

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a man's desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange his life for a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. But the mass of men, lacking valor, pass away their lives without ever feeling the least touch of such a desire.

Having something worth dying for is never the same as willingness to die.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.